Can you sweep the tomb before the Spring Festival Can you sweep the tomb during the Dragon Boat Fest

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The Spring Festival on the first day of the Lunar New Year is generally not to go to the grave, because the Spring Festival is a day to observe the New Year and worship the gods, if you go to worship the ancestors at this time, the gods will feel that you have no respect for them. During the Spring Festival, the gods worshiped on different days are different, so there is a particular time to sweep the tomb.

If you want to worship your ancestors during the Spring Festival, you generally choose Chinese New Year's EveChinese New Year's Eve to sweep the tomb and worship your ancestors. In some parts of China, there is a custom of going to the grave on Chinese New Year's Eve, called sending a New Year's meal. The time to go to the grave is generally on the afternoon of Chinese New Year's Eve, and people send the prepared Chinese New Year's Eve meal to the grave of the deceased relatives, so that the deceased relatives and the living can enjoy the Chinese New Year's Eve food together, so as to express people's sorrow for the deceased relatives.

In addition, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month is also a festival where you can worship your ancestors and sweep the tombs. Because the Lantern Festival is also called the Shangyuan Festival, the Shangyuan Festival is one of the Taoist sacrificial festivals "Sanyuan Festival", and it is possible to go to the grave to sweep the tomb.

1. Before the Spring Festival, you can sweep the tomb, and the tomb to worship the ancestors is a grand folk activity during the Spring Festival, which is to express the gratitude and nostalgia of the ancestors, and hope that the ancestors and gods will bless the future generations with prosperity, happiness and health. Those who have the conditions to worship the ancestors before eating Chinese New Year's Eve, and send the ancestors home on the fifth day of the first month is to send the ancestors back to the cemetery.

2. Sweep the tomb, that is"Tomb offerings", said to the ancestors"Respect for the time", the custom has a long history. In some places, tomb sweeping is called"Sweep the mountain"or"Worship the mountain", as part of the South calls it"Hanging mountain or"Hanging paper"Out of respect for the ancestors, or"Go to the evil word and call it beautiful"rhetorical habits. For example, the tomb sweeping on the Qingming Festival, the north is called the tomb, and the southern coastal area is to avoid it"Grave"、"Tombs"Two words, euphemistically"Worship the mountain"。

I call tomb sweeping"Worship the mountain"Looks more quaint,"Mountain"One of the ancient meanings of the word is made"Tombs"Solution, today's feng shui masters still call the direction of the cemetery"Mountain-oriented"。

Yes, you can sweep the grave at any time, as long as it is not the first day of the Lunar New Year and the 15th day of August.

If you miss your loved ones, you can go, you don't have to be able to do it on the Qingming Festival, you can do it in normal times.

It is okay to sweep the tomb during the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the first prayer sacrifice of the year in ancient times. All things are based on the sky, people are based on the ancestors, pray for the New Year, worship the heavens and the ancestors, and report the beginning of the book. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the inheritance and development.

During the Spring Festival, various activities are held to celebrate the New Year all over the country, with strong local characteristics.

In the early era of observation and timing, the year was determined according to the shift of the stars, and the "bucket handle Huiyin" was the first of the year. The earth of "Bucket Handle Huiyin" is rejuvenated, and it is renewed, and a new cycle is opened. In the traditional agrarian society, the beginning of spring is of great significance, and a large number of related festivals and customs have been derived.

In the historical development, although the calendar is used differently and the date of the first festival of the year is different, the festival framework and many folk customs have been inherited. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it generally does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Evolution of time:

China's astrological culture has a long history, broad and profound, the ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe very early, and thus deduced a complete and profound set of stargazing Duanzhou culture. The Big Dipper rotates in a circular manner, and the stars have a close relationship with the changes of the seasons.

The Big Dipper is an important astrological sign in the Northern Hemisphere (China is located in the Northern Hemisphere), and the natural rhythm of the corresponding regions near the Yellow and Red Junctions of the Northern Hemisphere is also gradually changing when the stars are moving, so it has become the basis for people to judge the change of the seasons. "Bucket handle Huiyin" the earth rejuvenates, Vientiane is renewed, and the new year begins. In the course of historical development, due to the change of dynasties and the change of calendars, the date of the beginning of the year (New Year) is also different.